3:59 PM,
Mar. 8, 2013

Former President Bill Clinton

Written by

David Jackson
USA TODAY

It's not every day you see an ex-president ask the Supreme Court to strike down a law he signed.

That's what Bill Clinton is doing with the Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as between a man and a woman -- and which the high court will rule on this year in a landmark moment for the gay marriage movement.

The justices must decide whether the Defense of Marriage Act "is consistent with the principles of a nation that honors freedom, equality and justice above all, and is therefore constitutional," Clinton writes in The Washington Post. ...